Legislating international organization
Subtitle: the U.S. Congress, the IMF, and the World Bank
By: Kathryn C. Lavelle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780199765348
Subjects: United States; Monetary policy; World Bank; United States. Congress; International Monetary Fund
Description: In this work, Kathryn Lavelle argues against the commonly-held idea that key international organizations are entities unto themselves, immune from the influence and pressures of individual states' domestic policies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Congressional advocacy towards international organizations; title: Enacting a multilateral framework for finance : treasury and congressional compromise; title: Building constituencies for the Bretton Woods framework : banks, big business, and the Cold War coalition; title: Domestic constituencies speak : the end of fixed parity and the rise of development lending; title: Iron triangles go global : the 1982 debt crisis and the end of the Cold War; title: Widening the circle, narrowing the outcome : the 1997 Asian financial crisis; title: Reviving a role for the Bretton Woods institutions : the financial crisis of 2008; title: Conclusions.